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In this town Richard had settled after his return from America, in which country he had enriched himself, first, by spirit and industry, lastly, by bold speculation and good luck. He invested his fortune in business, became a partner in a large brewery, soon bought out his associates, and then took a principal share in a flourishing corn-mill.
I have pledged you to buy him a café in Warsaw if the troops come speedily." "Make it a brewery, Alec," said Beaumanoir; "these bounders mean business." A constant fusillade of bullets was now tearing the windows to atoms, and shattering the ceiling on the other side of the room. Lord Adalbert was justified in offering liberal terms for relief.
It was the picture of a very sinful metropolis that they demanded, and the author was bound that he was not going to disappoint them. The frontispiece of the book shows the Stewart Mansion at the corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, and by contrast, the Old Brewery at the Five Points.
The mismanagement of a brewery a hundred and fifty miles from London; the failure of the British working-man to drink his customary pints in several scattered scores of public-houses, had most unaccountably knocked the bottom out of the Putney system of practical philosophy.
Carl was rubbing down the Big Gray. He had been hauling ice all the morning for the brewery. The Gray was under the cart-shed, a flood of winter sunlight silvering his shaggy mane and restless ears. The Swede was scraping his sides with the currycomb, and the Big Gray, accustomed to Cully's gentler touch, was resenting the familiarity by biting at the tippet wound about the neck of the young man.
So he drew himself up, and dangled his glove more slowly than before. "Then you were not going on to congratulate them at the brewery?" "Certainly not." "I did not know." "My purpose carries me no farther than Marmaduke Lodge. I have no desire to see any one to-day besides Miss Thoroughbung." "That is a compliment." Then his memory suddenly brought back to him one of his composed sentences.
'By the way, said Mr Brindley, 'you used to know Simon Fuge, didn't you? 'Old Simon Fuge! said Miss Brett. 'Yes; after the brewery company took the Blue Bell at Cauldon over from him, I used to be there. He would come in sometimes. Such a nice queer old man! 'I mean the son, said Mr Brindley. 'Oh yes, she answered.
I never owned a penny in that Fraserville brewery, for instance; but I've been pointed out as its owner. They've got the idea here in Indiana that saloons are my chief joy in life; but nothing is farther from the truth. When Mrs. Bassett has been troubled about that I have always been able to tell her with a good conscience that I hadn't a penny in the business.
Churches and convents have sprung up. Manufactures of serge and of hempen cloth have been introduced. A market, a brewery, and a tannery have been opened. The ground has been considerably cleared, and the agricultural resources of the country have been developed; three-fourths of the inhabitants can now live on the produce of the land, merely at the cost of their own labour.
Their satin-shod feet had high sharp insteps in films of black lace and their fingers glittered with prismatic stones. Bernard was in front with the chauffeur, and Frederick Rathe occupied a small seat at the knees of the three others. He had not made his money, as had August and Bernard, but inherited it with a huge brewery.
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